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This book covers a wide range of technical issues relating to lightwave technologies using high coherence lightwaves. Electromagnetic wave communication started when the first wireless system was invented by Marconi in 1895. However, we had to wait about one hundred years to realize a similar technology in the lightwave frequency region. The invention of lasers in 1960 and two technology innovations in 1970 -low loss silica fiber and semiconductor lasers operating at room temperature - promoted the development of fiber-optic transmission systems. The deployment of high-speed long-haul fiber-optic transmission systems has led to the formation of domestic and international trunk networks. The installed fiber cables in local loop plants provide multimedia communication services including broadband video. However, present lightwave communication systems do not fully utilize the fruitful potential oflightwaves, namely the capacity of extremely high frequency electromagnetic information carrier waves. The frequency oflightwaves used for fiber-optic transmission is about 200 THz 14 (2 x 10 Hz), and the frequency bandwidth of the fiber low loss region is about 13 20 THz (2 x 10 Hz). Recent developments of narrow spectrum width semiconduc tor laser and planar optical waveguide devices offer us the possibilities for a new generation of lightwave-based communication systems. This book focuses on system aspects ofthe new generation lightwave communi cation technologies such as optical frequency division multiplexing and coherent detection. Chapter 1 overviews lightwave communication system technology.
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`Although this book is entitled Coherent Lightwave Technology, which is its major theme, much of the material is also applciable more widely to multichannel optical transmission systmes in general. The scope of the book is from the basic theory of coherent communications through to practical engineered systems and their design.'
British Telecommunications Engineering
British Telecommunications Engineering
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Book Title: Coherent Lightwave Communications Technology
Editors: Sadakuni Shimada
Series Title: Telecommunications Technology & Applications Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1308-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1995
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-412-57940-0Published: 31 October 1994
eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-1308-3Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 258
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Electrical Engineering